It's the last day of exams - winter break is almost here! 🎉❄️ Wishing a Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings to our staff, students, alumni, and friends in St Andrews and around the world! 🎄✨ See you in 2026! #EverToExcel

Reducing social isolation protects the brain in later life, finds Dr Jo Mhairi Hale from St Andrews Geography & SD in a new study Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/rcnI50XKqwg #EverToExcel

Leading academics from St Andrews, @lshtm.bsky.social and @universityofleeds.bsky.social, writing in the @bmj.com, warn that the UK is failing to apply vital lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic as flu cases surge Read more 👇 ow.ly/evzO50XKh7C #EverToExcel

Did you know members of the community can join the University library? You can borrow 10 items at a time and membership costs £30 a year. Pop along to the library and bring: 🪪 Two forms of ID – one photographic ✉️ Proof of address from the last 3 months #EverToExcel

New research from the University of St Andrews, Centre for Forest Protection and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew  present new understandings on the restoration of ‘lost’ tree species.   Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/Vrf450XCLxz #EverToExcel

Congratulations to all students graduating this afternoon from: 💼Business School 🧑‍🏫International Education & Lifelong Learning Institute 🎻Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 📚Classics 🗣️Mod Lang 🎓Watch live👇 https://ow.ly/2zbF50XBbiv #ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025 #EverToExcel

Congratulations to all students graduating this morning from: 🖼️ Art History 🧪 Chemistry ⛪️ Divinity 📚 History 🎞️ Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies 🧠 Psychology and Neuroscience 🎓Watch live👇 https://ow.ly/CQyi50XB8KO #ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025 #EverToExcel

Congratulations to this afternoon's graduates: 🌏 BA Int'l Honours 📚 BSc General 📝 MA General 📖 Graduate School 🌱 Earth & Environmental Sci 📚 English 🌏 Geography & Sustainable Dev 🗺️ Int'l Relations 🎓Watch live👇 https://ow.ly/UqO250XABuZ #ClassOf2025 #EverToExcel

Congratulations to all students graduating this morning from: 🧪 Biology 💻 Computer Science 🧮 Mathematics and Statistics 🩺 Medicine ✨ Physics and Astronomy #ClassOf2025 🎓🎉 Watch live👇 https://ow.ly/J8Vy50XAv7O#ClassOf2025 #ForeverSaints #EverToExcel

The University has begun the process to elect a new Chancellor, following the sad death earlier this year of Lord Campbell of Pittenweem. Read more about the nomination and election process 👇 https://ow.ly/xy2P50XzVGI #EverToExcel

Graduates, friends and family are welcome to attend our special graduation Thanksgiving Services in St Salvator's Chapel this week. 🎓 Join us at 9.30am on Tuesday and Wednesday, or watch via live stream.👇 https://ow.ly/SnQl50XzUEy #ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025 #EverToExcel

Happy St Andrew's Day https://ow.ly/KvqC50Xzv1r #EverToExcel #StAndrewsDay #Scotland

On Sunday, St Salvator’s Chapel & Chapel Choir take centre stage in two national BBC broadcasts for St Andrews Day & start of advent. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🕯️ 📻 BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship ⏰ 8.10am 📻 BBC Radio 3 Carols Across the Country ⏰ 4.30pm Listen live or at BBC Sounds. #EverToExcel

Congratulations to Saints Sport rowers Harris Bisset, Hansine Marshall and Tom Mitchell, who each bagged a medal at the 2025 Commonwealth Rowing Association Beach Sprints Championships in Barbados. 🚣‍♂️ 🏅 Read more 👇 https://ow.ly/aJrR50XyGmW #EverToExcel

We can't wait for Winter Graduation in St Andrews next Tuesday and Wednesday. 🎓 🙌 There are ceremonies at 10.30am and 2pm both days, and you can watch live online from wherever you are in the world. 🌎 https://ow.ly/b0EH50XyFbM #EverToExcel #ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025

Researchers at St Andrews are part of a world-class team awarded a major BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger grant to explore one of nature’s most intriguing mysteries: how animals sense the Earth’s magnetic field. Read more 👇 https://ow.ly/Al2g50Xy208 #EverToExcel

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered how Incas used Andean balance scales called 'wipi' and ancient string knot writing known as ‘khipus’, in association with sacred, animate landscapes Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/A3V350Xy6Yz #EverToExcel

Seal milk is more complex than human milk, containing 332 different sugar molecules, opposed to 250 in humans, challenging previously held assumptions that human milk is uniquely complex amongst mammals. 🦭🍼🥳 Read More....👇 https://ow.ly/9w0350Xy6pt

The University of St Andrews and Universität Bonn have named three new joint professors under their Joint Academic Appointments Scheme. Congratulations to Kathryn Rudy, Karin Peters and Thomas Döring. 🙌 Read more 👇 https://ow.ly/iwS750Xy1la #EverToExcel

Graduating students, friends and family are welcome to attend our special graduation Thanksgiving Services in St Salvator's Chapel next week. 🎓 Join us at 9.30am on Tuesday and Wednesday, or watch via live stream.👇 https://ow.ly/bc3P50XxqfW #ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025

Come along to our virtual postgraduate open week from 24 to 28 November to learn about: 🎓 Schools and programmes 🫶 Student life 🏠 Accommodation 📝Application process 💷 Fees, funding and scholarships https://ow.ly/4s3950XwRtk #EverToExcel

Fishing, foraging, and the fight to save African penguins - read our latest Research Spotlight, featuring Jacqui Glencross. 🐧 https://ow.ly/arOT50XwQVG #EverToExcel

We can't wait for Winter Graduation in St Andrews next Tuesday and Wednesday. 🎓 🙌 Find out everything you need to know, from when the ceremonies are taking place to how to watch online ⬇️ https://ow.ly/xTII50XwOkX #EverToExcel #ForeverSaints

Leading women in justice & journalism to be honoured at Winter Graduation. 🎓 Former Lord Justice Clerk The Right Honourable Lady Dorrian & broadcaster Kirsty Young will join around 820 students graduating on Dec 2 & 3. Read more ⬇️ https://ow.ly/veJS50XvLtH #EverToExcel

A new study has found that Critically Endangered African penguins are significantly more likely to forage in the same areas as commercial fishing vessels during years of low fish abundance. Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/3u8H50XsXFW #EverToExcel

The St  Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history, at the University's Wardlaw Museum. Read more 👇 https://ow.ly/5hUn50XrP9P #EverToExcel

Read how St Andrews rowers and Saints Sport's coastal rowing programme helped power Team GB to sprint success in the 2025 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals in Antalya, Türkiye.👇 ow.ly/jgUp50XrPCc #EverToExcel

"A total solar eclipse is a fully immersive shared experience — the light dims, the temperature drops, a breeze rustles, wildlife reacts, planets appear..." Dr Deborah Kent shines a light on eclipse expeditions in this week's Research Spotlight. Read more 👇 https://ow.ly/8T6h50XrOzC #EverToExcel

🏆 Green Gown Award WINNER! Huge congratulations to the St Andrews Nature Networks project for winning in the Nature Positive category. 🌿 Check out the project here👇 https://ow.ly/pCFV50Xocml #EverToExcel

Join us today for our online undergraduate Visiting Day from 12-5pm. 🫶 Explore the admissions process, hear from current students, meet with academic School representatives and discover what St Andrew has to offer our undergraduate community. 👇 https://ow.ly/60Ki50Xmsmf #EverToExcel

Congratulations to our alumna Jasmine Mitchell, medicine graduate star baker, and now Champion of the Great British Bake Off! 🍰 ⭐ 🏆 #EverToExcel

Hiding in plain sight. New research has uncovered a surprising evolutionary mechanism behind some animals’ trick of hiding in plain sight from predators. Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/ehSl50XmApJ #EverToExcel

"I am passionate about discovering more about nature and the fascinating ecology of the natural world. I absolutely love the creative challenge of a messy dataset!" Read Dr Ali Johnston's Research Spotlight on our Staff News page. 👇 https://ow.ly/ayne50XkU0o #EverToExcel

"The implicit assumption seems to be that one parent has a lesser career and can look after the children, whilst the other does their work. For me, as a woman scientist, that does not fit." Read our Research Spotlight on Dr Jess Hope. 👇 https://ow.ly/VB6s50XkSUq #EverToExcel

Hidden receipts, unknown printers and gold-tipped funeral poems. The University of St Andrews is celebrating 30 years of its global book hunting project, the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) @apettegree.bsky.social 📖🌍🥳 Read more...👇 https://ow.ly/Lfck50XiUhg #EverToExcel

Professor Tom Shakespeare from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will give the 2025 Irvine Memorial Lecture, entitled 'Disability: what it is, and why it concerns everyone’. All welcome. 📍Booth Lecture, St Andrews 📅 Mon 3 Nov 🕰️ 5.30pm https://ow.ly/Eikp50Xgko5 #EverToExcel

What is rights retention? What’s the difference between CC BY and CC BY-NC? How can I pay these publishing charges? Find answers to these questions, and helpful tips, information guides, and videos at our Open Research blog. 👇 https://ow.ly/Kq1W50XgLSe #EverToExcel

The University has renewed its partnership with Rusacks St Andrews, extending a collaboration that celebrates the heritage, community, and competitive spirit at the Home of Golf. Read more ⬇️ https://ow.ly/9zvw50XfBiw #EverToExcel

No place like foam - students gathered on Lower College Lawn for the annual Raisin Monday foam fight - one of the University's much-loved traditions! #EverToExcel

The Tabula Project preview opened last night at St Andrews Botanic Gardens. Starting today, 3 online roundtables will explore how we rethink our perceptions of the climate crisis with artist & Greener Vision CEO Claire Haigh. Learn more + register: https://ow.ly/2Vfm50XaTw8 #EverToExcel

Net zero will reshape how we live—so how do we move forward fairly and urgently? Roundtable – Tues 14 Oct Speakers: Lord Deben, Alex Sobel MP, Fiona Howarth, Prof Jillian Anable. Opens with art from The Tabula Project. Join the debate 👉 Sign up: https://ow.ly/Enm750XazIS #EverToExcel

Professor Christopher Smith from St Andrews Classics has been appointed as Chair of the National Library of Scotland Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/rW9K50XaqGr #EverToExcel

🔬 Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate Join Dr Vincent Ialenti & Prof Mette High for a fireside chat on the future of U.S. nuclear waste policy. 🗓️ 9 Oct | 🕐 4–6pm | 💻 Online 🔗 https://ow.ly/UsUl50X74mR #EverToExcel

Professor Lars Kotthoff has been appointed as the Johann and Gaynor Rupert Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of St Andrews. Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/tLIe50X621g #EverToExcel

‘The Foreign Secretary’s objectives should be...focused on containing 🇷🇺 expansionism in Europe, mitigating the direct effects of Middle Eastern conflicts and keeping the Balkans peaceful,’ says Dr Marc De Vore, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #BigAsk #BritainsWorld

New research from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience has revealed the brain’s built-in distance tracker, and its link to early Alzheimer's diagnosis. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.011 Read more... 👇 ow.ly/HL5S50WZh2l #EverToExcel

St Andrews top in Scotland and second in the UK in the @theguardian.com University Guide 2026 🎉 Maths, History, and International Relations take the top spot in the new rankings with a further 16 subjects ranking in the top 10 🎉 Read more 👇 ow.ly/hzCj50WWe9R #EverToExcel

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Our School of Physics & Astronomy hosted the @univofstandrews first Advanced Materials industry day, bringing together academics and researchers with businesses, funders & government. Check out our video to find out more... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2NM... #EverToExcel

New #research from @distantworlds.space with @nasawebb.extwitter.link @stsci.edu @umich.edu @cornellupress.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social & MIT identifies signs of atmosphere on TRAPPIST 1e, an Earth-sized #exoplanet located 40 light years away Read more👇 ow.ly/SFOT50WTaHI #EverToExcel